leggy

Example Sentences

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But these same strange, delicate, leggy arthropods also haunt our nightmares.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Los Angeles was Chandler’s terrain, as much of a muse as any of the leggy blonds that populated his fiction.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024

Australia started to flag on Sunday but I think Scotland made them look leggy.

From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024

She hurtled through the air most weeks as Lynda Carter’s stunt double on the hit television series “Wonder Woman” and mimed Ms. Carter’s leggy lope.

From New York Times • May 11, 2024

I was long and leggy and mosquito-thin, a record-breaking twenty-five inches at Baptist Hospital.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett